摘要：Museum visitor books, although held by almost all museums, are rarely used asa research source. This article explores their potential to provide insights andinformation about audience views, experiences and understandings. To do so,it focuses primarily on visitor books at the Documentation Centre of the formerNazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany. The article highlightsquestions about using such books as a research source and to this end itcontains discussion of forms of address, visitor conceptions of the nature androle of visitor books and of museums and exhibitions, styles of entries, and waysin which visitors talk about exhibition media and types of display, and makecomparisons and links with their own experience. It also includes discussion ofsome themes more specific to history exhibitions, including different possible'temporal orientations' exhibited by visitors; as well as some more specific to theexhibition of morally and politically difficult topics, and of Nazism in particular
关键词：visitor books; audience research; interpretation; history exhibitions; Nazi heritage
